No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

Do you think this was done just for PR stunt, a million euros per county at grass roots and what will that bring to clubs in Waterford outside the likes of ballygunner. What about the junior clubs they will benefit from this and all gaa clubs the length of Ireland need it at grass roots. You won’t see pictures of him going around handing out the money in the papers.

Wed morning drove up to the farm gate/entrance; as usual the cat came out to greet me and we conversed as I changed into the wellingtons and work clothes. Suddenly he started a loud, harsh call I looked at him to see him spreadeagled with stomach almost on the ground and scrabbling at the grass with his front paws; said to myself he must have a colic/bad stomach pain. I called to him 4/5 times and he answered with this roar. I then opened the driver's door and in the process discovered half his tail was trapped in the door. He fled of course.

This morning as I approached the gate he trotted out to give his morning salutation. But stopped 5 yards inside the gate!!

Fair play to Jp mc manus. I'm delighted he stipulated it goes to club level as our county board wouldn't know what to do with it. Probably bury it in the drama that is our new county ground

I seem to be alone in my sentiments about JP. When you are the only one with a particular opinion, sometimes you have to look at your viewpoint and wonder are you right? I'm still torn, and do realise the good it will do. Our club here has all 3 codes and it looks like we will get near €30,000 out of this. It will do a lot of good.

I actually feel a little like the child that is at home looking after parents day to day about this. The sibling who is away comes in once every few months, brings a big present or brings the parents out for dinner, makes a big deal of the whole thing and it is wonderful that the parents get a kick from it. But its the one who is local at home, like my sister, living just up the road who puts 15 hrs a week into my parents that never gets the paudits. Like the ordinary tax payer, or GAA member who has been selling €50 worth of lotto tickets a week, week in week out for twenty years.

Maybe I am wrong and way too cynical about it, and I am grateful to JP McManus for what my own children will get from this in our local club, but like I say I am torn by it. Feel free to tear my views apart, I won't take offence, and won't even be commenting on this again, andlike I said in my first line, I could be wrong. I was before and I will be again.

Utter bullsh1t, you obviously know nothing about the man or his legacy.

Is they’re anything to be said for another mass.

It's replaced with other shite now like green stuff, or immigrants are bad or LGBTQ+(xyz-&123)

That's harsh, he has a point, - I disagree with it on this occasion but it's a valid opinion.

@Grueller , most of these income bracket individuals are not paying their proper share of taxes here, - yes its annoying and unfair to the rest of us but that's the system that has been created and they just use it. I can't think of another one who gives back to communities here the way JP does.

I know quite a few people who know him personally quite well from before and since the wealth. I've only met him once. The general consensus seems to be that you've no better friend in a corner but that if you try to wrong him or catch him n any way he's merciless.

Get what you’re saying about your sister, but look at it this way you’re sister is the local club doing the ground work and the visitors are the county board looking for the big day, with the way JP is giving the money he is looking to make your sisters work a little bit easier and by passing the visitor. In my life time of the gaa the club always struggles to keep going and it’s the sisters that do the work day in day out, this week we buried the president of the club who I played football with as a 16 year and he was 38 at the time he was heart and soul of everything and the amount of people who had great times with this man in the club and his two sons carry it on to today, his grandson has made the county minor panel this year and he played for the county and Leinster himself, sport makes great communities, friends and builds life. JP has done a good deed for sport here and has done a lot for charity,

Ya'd think that, but seems not. Or it seems that way. Maybe it's the empty vessels, most noise story but it sure does get annoying being preached to by what seem to be numpties - educated or not.

JP doesn't have a company in which the general population purchases products/services. Adare would be out of the reach of many thus cant get people saying its PR in any event 32 million is one hell of a bill for advertising.

Well isn't this just a typically irish conversation/argument. A wealthy man has decided to donate some of his wealth (32 million not 32 euro) and people are giving out about it. So what if JP is a tax exile that's his business choice. With the amount of people that he and his family employ worldwide. He could keep all his money in Switzerland or wherever and not spend a penny on anything. Then ye will complain. Let's start up a protest and make him take back his money. We don't want it solely because he is not a tax resident in out country. Tell him to shove his 32 million up his Swiss bank account

The FAI? Who are in existence longer than the GAA yet haven't a pot to piss in because like the xxxxxxxx they are they pissed it up against the wall.

Great call... give them more shur...

Disband them more like.

Ok. Fair enough. I took the bait hook line and sinker then. :-) Good to know someone still has a sense of humour.